Re: Resolving template parameters

From:
John Harrison <john_andronicus@hotmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Wed, 21 Feb 2007 07:08:55 GMT
Message-ID:
<beSCh.16136$Uy5.8138@newsfe2-win.ntli.net>
stefan.bruckner@gmail.com wrote:

Hi,

I am looking for a way to achieve the following. I've tried a couple
of things, but they all ended up being too complicated:

I have a templated class A. I want another class B to be able to call
a method defined in A's base class which at runtime determines the
template parameters (I know ahead what is allowed) and calls a
templated member function B with A's template parameters.

I'm imagining something like this - I know that it can't work like
this, but I would like to achieve a similarly simple syntax:

class Base
{
public:
  virtual void call(...) = 0;
}

template <class T1,class T2>
class A : public Base
{
  public:
    void call(...)
    {
      if (typeid(T1) == ...)
        ...
      else if (...)
        ...
      else if (...)
        ...
    }
}

class B
{
public:

  void x()
  {
    Base *pSomePtr = ...;
    pSomePtr->call(this,&B::y);
  };

  template <class T1,class T2>
  void y()
  {
    // do stuff
  };
};

Any help on how I could realize this would be greatly appreciated .

Thanks,
Stefan


This works for me, and it isn't retricted to a known set of template
parameters. But it doesn't pass the member function to be called to the
call method. I wasn't sure if that was part of your requirements or not.

john

#include <iostream>

class B;

class Base
{
public:
    virtual void call(B* b) = 0;
};

class B
{
public:

    void x(Base *pSomePtr)
    {
        pSomePtr->call(this);
    };

    template <class T1,class T2>
    void y()
    {
        std::cout << typeid(T1).name() << ' ' << typeid(T2).name() << '\n';
    };
};

template <class T1, class T2>
class A : public Base
{
public:
    void call(B* b)
    {
        b->y<T1, T2>();
    }
};

int main()
{
    A<int, double> a;
    B b;
    b.x(&a);
}

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